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Using spatial hypertext to visualize composite knowledge in emergency responses
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2010
Abstract
Having the right information at the right time is crucial to make decisions during emergency responses. To fulfill this requirement, emergency management systems must provide emergency managers with knowledge management and visualization tools. The goal is twofold: on one hand, to organize knowledge coming from different sources, mainly the emergency response plans (the formal knowledge) and the information extracted from the emergency development (the contextual knowledge); on the other hand, to enable effective access to information. Formal and contextual knowledge sets are mostly disjoint; however, there are cases in which a formal knowledge piece may be updated with some contextual information, constituting what we call the composite knowledge. In this paper, we extend a knowledge framework with the notion of composite knowledge, and use spatial hypertext to visualize this type of knowledge. We illustrate our proposal with a case study on accessing to information during an emergency response in an underground transportation system.
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Proceedings of the 7th International ISCRAM Conference – Seattle, USA, May 2010;p.17
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Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), MEC, Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, Generalitat Valenciana, CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – www.cnpq.br), CAPES/MECD Cooperation Program, MEC-FPU